The Life and Exploits of Alexander the Great, being a Series of Ethiopic Texts, edited from Manuscripts in the British Museum and the Bibliothèque Nationale Paris with an English Translation and Notes by E. A. Wallis Budge: II.

Published in 1896 by Charles J. Clay and Sons for the Cambridge University Press, this volume represents a landmark in the scholarly translation of the Alexander Romance into Ethiopic. E. A. Wallis Budge, a prominent and often controversial curator at the British Museum, compiled these texts by synthesizing manuscripts held in London and Paris. His work was intended to make the rich, syncretic tradition of the Alexander legend—which had traveled from Greek origins through Syriac and Arabic versions into the Ge'ez language—accessible to Western academia for the first time.

Budge’s editorial approach reflects the late Victorian fascination with Near Eastern antiquity and the mission to organize and catalogue the linguistic heritage of the region. The design of this edition is characteristic of nineteenth-century academic printing, favoring high-quality paper, clear typography, and meticulous scholarly apparatus. While modern scholarship has often critiqued Budge’s rapid translation style and lack of critical distance, this collection remains an essential historical bridge for those studying the evolution of the Alexander myth in Christian and Islamic literary traditions.